Need hour help with Hubby......

[farmy]

a firm no is good... we also had to use a penny can on my smaller pot belly... she never nibbled me but she used to nibble my hubby all the time.

 

[haviris]

Well my pig was a bottle baby (or bowl baby), so I held her from 3 days on. And no I don't think loud squeals is the way to go.

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

When "we do get a pig" .... I plan on having it live outside...if we get a baby should I keep it inside until a certain age...or should i keep it outside in its yard/hut 24/7 so it knows its place....?

 

[farmy]

umm I hear of people doing both...having them indoors when small and then shipping them out... It's hard to say. I would imagine if you want the piggy to live outside, whats where you should start it off.

I can not imagine telling my pigs now that they can not come inside... (i think i would lose that battle if I tried!)

If you plan on getting a little pot belly you may have to keep him inside at first... My little baby (who I want to bring home but hubby says no more pigs!) Chicken Little, is about to turn a year old and is just now big enough to go into a pen, he maybe weighs 15 pounds.

A few things I can advise if you are going to keep a pig outside...

It seems to me that if you provide a plastic kids pool (available for around 5 dollars at toys-r-us or walmart) and keep sun screen on your pig your yard wont become as sloshy and muddy, our guys love their pools and the plastic really holds up to them. Nellers does this to her pool everyday and its held up for almost a year...

I also like them because they are easy to clean.

On our pigs we use an SPF 30 kids sun block and it works great!

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

OMG !!!! I WANT A PIG!!!! Thats to funny!!! thanks for the photo!!!